Definition of "rehearse"

rehearse

/ɹɪˈhɝs/

verb
third-person singular simple present rehearses, present participle rehearsing, simple past and past participle rehearsed
1. (transitive) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
2. (transitive) To narrate; to relate; to tell.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater
  Quotations
  In sober mornings, do not thou reherseThe holy incantation of a verse ...
  1648, Robert Herrick, “When he would have his verses read”, in Hesperides
4. (transitive, theater) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
  Quotations
  He […] has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen Her […]
  1859, Charles Dickens, “Darkness”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], book III (The Track of a Storm), page 231
  It was plain that he'd been rehearsed a lot, but he wasn't letter-perfect by any manner of means.
  1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post‎
5. To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.